The Animal Rights Struggle Christophe Traïni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Traïni, Christophe, author.

Series:

Protest and social movements ; 6.

Protest and social movements ; 6

Standardized Title:

Cause animale, 1820-1980. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships--History.

Human-animal relationships.

Animal welfare--History.

Animal welfare.

Animal rights--History.

Animal rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Since the early nineteenth century, numerous campaigns have denounced the mistreatment of animals. This book compares the British and French histories of the animal-protection movement to retrace its origins and impact up to the present day. As Christophe Traïni shows, the struggle for animal rights - inextricably linked to the rise of philanthropy and established long before the birth of the ecology movement - developed out of several important social and political processes, including changes in sensibilities and socially approved emotions, new definitions of what constitutes legitimate violence, and the influence of religious beliefs.

Contents:

1. A long and complex struggle

2. Noble gentleness, vile cruelty

3. To act as an enlightened philosopher

4. To enlighten the ignorant, to refine the barbarian

5. "Us," the animals and "them"

6. The rise in the power of tenderness

7. (Animal) victims and social domination

8. A decreasingly "wild" nature.

Notes:

Text translated by Richard Jemmett.

Translation of: La cause animale. Essai de sociologie historique (1820-1980).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-04-077518-7

1-003-70514-6

1-04-078474-7

90-485-2703-1

9781003705147

OCLC:

966641373